The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-07
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One of the recent discoveries is that
electricity may be extracted from po-
ato bugs.
There are more opium smokers in
sacramento than in any other place in
California.
"A recent advertisement in an eastern
paper reads: "Wanted-A nurse to
mind children"
The use of the corset is traced back
SIX centuries, and il was then, as now,
an object of satire.
The statues of Washington and
Henry Clay, in Richmond, Va, are
both in swallow-tails.
The Celtic language is spoken bv
10000 people in Ireland. 64.oo0 OF
whom caa speak no other.
Agricultural implements have been
IN such great demand in Manitoba that
nearly every dealer has sold out
Max Well, who is rated at ss.OOO.-
VOO, Is said to be the richest of the
forty jew millionaires in New York.
Long Branch hackmen are said 70
Dc greater swindlers than their Nj
agara Falls brethren ever thought OF
being.
Oregon imports much of the butter
she consumes, though there is no bet
ter dairy country in the world than
Oregon.
What is an epistle?n asked Sun
day school teacher of her class The
wife of an apostle, replied the young
hopeful.
Prof. Tyndall, who recently avowed
himself a Coercionist, is an Irishman
by birth. He was born in County Car
low in 1920
Expert girls making the first quality
of mems linen collars can, in the Troy
factories, for instance, earn from $25
to $50 per week.
\ bill recently introduced into the
Georgia Legislature prohibits the use
of the little chromoS that go with pack
ages of cigarettes.
George Francis Train is said to have
recently received and declined an offer
of $4,000 from Chicago syndicate
for series of thirty lectures.
The total number of postmasters re-
ceiving less than 81 200 per annum is
50,5S2. OF that number AS. 003 are
paid between S400 and $500.
1t is shown by official returns that
the production of anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania the last fiscal year was
nearly thirty-six millions of tons.
Steel framed cabs are now being
manufactured in England, with view
to lightness and greater durability than
ii wood were used for the purpose.
Gov Hill slips in and out of New
York in the quietest and most unpre-
tentious fashion. He always comes
and goes by the side entrance of the
hotel.
The Grand Duke Michael, cousin of
the Gar of Russia, it is reported in the
st. Petersburgh press, will shortly be
afiianeed to daughter of the Prince of
Wales.
1t is said that a wealthy editor of
Boston has made provisions in his will
for Il fund tn establish a professorship
of practical journalism at Harvard
college.
Forty-five years ago Elam Brown
purchased Il ranch from Spaniard in
Contra Costa county, California, and
he has lived on il ever since. He is
80 years old.
A club of scientists and linguists has
been formed in San Francisco Cal, for
the study of the Volapuk language,
the invention of German priest
named Schleyer.
Prince Bismarck is the most decor
ated man in Europe Should he ever
appear wearing insignia of all the
orders conferred on him he would re-
semble an Oriental Prince.
An estate of over one million aeres
was recently offered ut public auction
in Norway. 1t is hardly surprising
that there was no SERIOUS offer for it,.
and the estate was withdrawn.
BY careful experiments NJ. Bloch
has determined that it takes l.72 of a
second longer to hear a sound than to
see sight. and l.2l of second longer
to feel a touch than to see a sight.
Whitman county, Washington terri
| tory, has the smallest woman living.
| She resides three miles from Pine City.
is % years old, twenty-ninc inches
high. and weighs thirty-three pounds
Ex-senator Jones of Florida, who
fingered so long in Detroit, has opened
an Office for the practice of law in
New York, and will shortly be joined
by his son, Charles w. Jones, Jr., of
Florida.
Gen. William Curtis, who died re-
Gently in Pennsylvania, was the reah
captor of Gen. Robert +. Lee at Apo
mattox, being the Brigadier-General
in command of the advance of the.
Union army.
The San Diego Cal. Union claims.
that that city is the healthiest in the
world, since a doctor. druggist, and
an undertaken have abandoned their
respective professions to engage in the
real estate business.
Some one of statistical turn of
mind has been investigating whether
the study of classics or that of mathe-
matics is the more favorable to lon
geyity. The result is slightly in fayOT
of the study of the classics.
NJ Vallin, French chemist, has in
vented new kind of cement, possess
ing durability and she cold appearance
of marble, so that wall set with it
not only becomes impermeable 10
moisture, but can be polished and
made beautiful.
The "White Horsemen' of Tangi-
pahoa parish, Louisiana, is an organ
ization which devotes considerable of
its time to furnishing negroes for petty
crimes. Its members wear white
masks and uniforms, and cover their
horses with white cloth.
Dr. Mackenzie, the English surgeon
who operated on the German Crown
Princes throat, places royal estimate
upon the value of his services. He
charged $l3, 900 for making two trips
to Germany and treating his patient
IN London for a few days.
The Vermont legislature has been
petitioned to pass law whereby any
person who shall occupy and improve.
any unoccupied or worn out farm ia
the state shall be exempted from taxa
ton for five years. Farming IN Yer
mont is not profitable, and worn out
farms are abandoned.
Gen. Sheridan was asked by New
York reporter about his Presidential
boom aud said: Il must reply to you
as [ did to a reporter out West i told
him Kelly would be around soon.
who is Kelly?' he asked. Why, he's
a fool killer, said l.. You catch on, do
YOU? Well, good-by." j"
Lovers OF the waltz may Celebrate
its centenary. The first dance that
could be described as a waltz was in
troduced to the public in an opera at
Vienna in 1887, by one Vicente Mar
Unity Solar Commonly called Martini
10 SpagnuoiI. who was a popular COM
poser of the court of Joseph ii.
Gilbert and Sullivan are said on the
authority of London newspaper man
who is very close To tine Doyle Carte